Gluten Free Chocolate Raspberry Layer Cake

This moist and chocolaty gluten-free chocolate raspberry layer cake is the ultimate birthday cake! Lots of layers, raspberry and sweet chocolate buttercream frosting! It doesn’t get any better than this.

It is still birthday month in our house, just about everyone has a summer birthday! That means lots of cake like this gluten-free chocolate raspberry layer cake. Everyone has wanted something different. You will remember my daughter’s Gluten Free Lemon Layer Cake, we even got to use fresh lemons from our lemon tree.

My son’s cake still needs to be written up for the blog! He wanted a moist vanilla cake. I used the recipe in this Gluten Free Raspberry Bundt Cake as the foundation for his cake (minus the raspberries!)

Then it was Mr. Fearless Dining’s turn…he wanted chocolate and raspberries. I couldn’t wait to share this easy chocolate layer cake recipe with you. Please remember that I am not a professional cake decorator, and I usually learn the hard way so don’t forget to read down to see my frosting tips.

This chocolate cake is pretty incredible…I think part of the success is because I found a seedless raspberry jam. It really made all of the difference because you get all of the fresh raspberry flavor with no crunch from seeds!

(And don’t get too bored because Mr. Fearless Dining ended up with two birthday parties this year, and two different cakes!! Stay tuned for this incredible gluten-free carrot layer cake with cream cheese frosting recipe. (His mom picked that flavor LOL. This picture is a preview. I tried to keep the calories down by cutting the sugar and keeping the sides of the cake naked.)

Overall, we had a great birthday party for Mr. Fearless Dining, the chocolate raspberry cake was a huge hit with not only the gluten-free crowd, but all of our non-gluten free foodies as well. I didn’t get the pretty pictures of the cake sliced up. There were too many fingers and forks trying to dive into the cake after we sang “Happy Birthday”. My friends all laughed when I geeked out to take this one shot.

You may not need a cake quite this large. This gluten-free chocolate layer cake has three giant layers. I had about 18 people over for the party, so I went all out to make this cake extra-large!

Cake Baking Mistakes aka Bloopers!

Here is where I tell you what not to do. First, my cake cracked. I am not quite sure why, it was baked at 350 degrees. In hindsight, I wish I cut the top off to take some of the bulge off each layer. Second, I put the jam layer before the buttercream layer. That made it really hard to spread the buttercream because it was a lot thicker.

How to do it the right way:

Cut the domed top off each cake layer so the cake has a flat top.

Add the frosting, then add the jam on top. It will spread a LOT easier this way. The jam made it all slippery!

Here is a close-up of that chocolate buttercream frosting. It was thick and creamy, yet was really easy to spread once I learned to do that layer first.

Are you ready to make this cake?

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I definitely need to find that seedless raspberry jam! I personally hate chewing on the seeds but I love raspberry jam and I had no idea that a seedless version was available! The combination with the chocolate cake is amazing!! Love!

Hi Martine, I broke it out and clarified the instructions around making the frosting. I also bolded FROSTING next to frosting ingredients. I hope this helps :-). I am glad you liked the included blooper, I really should add those more often. Have a great weekend!

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